Sawdust Collector is Kicking Up Some Seriously Cool Stuff
Weekly performance series curated by Barbara Adler, Cole Schmidt and James Meger with frequent help from Debra Jean Creelman, Megan Stewart and Kyla Gardiner
VANDOC: Sawdust Collector started Sept 2016, correct? What does the name mean? Sawdust Collector: Yes, our first show was in September, only about a month and a half after we first decided to work together and join the Gold Saucer collective. At the end of February, we’ll have been running weekly shows for 6 months. […]
Between Two Rocks: Robert Leveroos’ MFA Project
Studio T, SFU School of Contemporary Arts
Between Two Rocks is a haunting and sumptuous performance full of bold imagery that will stick to your bones. The performance runs from September 22-24th, 2016 at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. A mountain of wool turns into a cloud. A stream of thread becomes a song and slowly leaks out a bucket. Morning […]
The Lady is a Tramp: Klasika by Barbara Adler
Words by Justin Ramsey Photos by Paula Viitanen Long before his rise to prominence as one of the leading thinkers of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse was a something of a young aesthete. His doctoral dissertation examined the Künstlerroman, a literary genre that situates the artist in a struggle against her prosaic, everyday milieu. Arguing […]
Makeshift Cowboy Meets Improvised Beach
Klasika goes on an urban vandr
Written by Barbara Adler Brit Bachmann photos Brendan Yandt soundscape It feels like it happened a long time ago. A group of friends met in my office at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, where I am currently a graduate student. We listened to field recordings I made last summer in the Czech Republic as […]
Talent Bursting at the Seams
Photos by Faber Neifer One year ago, at the Biltmore Cabaret, The Nautical Miles released their album Ode to Joy. Ode to Joy by The Nautical Miles Today, the Miles (consisting of members Corbin Murdoch (vocals, guitar), Timothy Tweedale (slide guitar, vocals), Simon Rotheisler (bass, vocals) and Lucas Schuller (drums, vocals) are celebrating their 10 […]
CONNECTIONS, Fall 2014
vandocument's own seasonal art party
Photos by Kendra Archer Vandocument’s CONNECTIONS fall party held on November 8th, 2014 included various performances and works of art from local and emerging Vancouver artists. The night included an incredible line up featuring: Amanda Courtney Niekamp (visual artist: illustration & painting) Clotted Artery (videography, screenings, interviews, media sponsor) Cometary (Rianne Švelnus + Sarah Gallos […]
Of Collaborations and Cheese Plates
Institutional Cheese Plate offers up interdisciplinary collaborations from SFU’s MFA program
Written by Megan Stewart All images provided by the artists In downtown Vancouver, floating between the shiny hallways and polished studios of the SFU Woodwards building and the dustier, industrial spaces of Alexander Centre, twenty-some interdisciplinary artists are creating work within Simon Fraser University’s Master of Fine Arts program. As a two-year whirlwind of a […]
Safe/Guard and Feast: Mystery and Intrigue at the rEvolver Festival
A teasingly mysterious look a pair of original dance/performances by local Vancouver artists as they begin their run at Upintheair Theatre's rEvolver Festival at The Cultch
On an overcast afternoon in May, Hailey McCloskey and Ash Tanasiychuk of VANDOCUMENT headed to the soon-to-be destroyed green house at The Cultch to get a sneak preview of Safe/Guard and Feast. This show, featuring two separate, yet curiously connected, original works, has been notoriously advertised with very little literal explanation. “A Visual Poem & […]